scope:

This Japanese Industrial Standard specifies the requirements for stainless steels used for building structures (hereafter referred to as steels).

a) Hot-formed H sections

b) Hot-formed equal-leg angles

c) Hot-formed U sections

d) Cold-formed equal-leg angles

e) Hot-rolled steel bars and cold-finished steel bars (round bars, square bars, hexagonal bars and flat bars)

f) Circular steel tubes and centrifugally cast steel tubes

g) Square and rectangular tubes

h) Hot-rolled steel sheets and strips i) Cold-rolled steel sheets and strips